It pains me to admit this. The story K-Lo linked on Noam Chomsky ending up at the top of the list of the world’s “public intellectuals” has me re-appraising Prof. Chumpsky’s reputation for honesty, which I had previously equated with that of a certain notorious eBay vendor who sold me some old superhero-comic videos that turned out to be blank. Asked about his first-place showing, Chumpsky expressed little interest in the ranking and speculated that the public-intellectual vote “was probably padded by some friends of mine.”

The other piece of good news from the piece was that Chris Hitchens made the top 10.